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 Definitions of declension  [ɪˈklɛn ʃən]  

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Definition of 'declension' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) declension
the inflection of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives for categories such as case and number.

2.  declension
the whole set of inflected forms of such a word, or the recital thereof in a fixed order.

3.  declension
a class of such words having similar sets of inflected forms:
the Latin second declension.

4.  declension
a bending, sloping, or moving downward.

5.  declension
deterioration; decline.

Etymology:  (1400–50; < OF declinaison < L dēclīnātiōdeclination)

Definition of 'declension' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) declension
the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages

2. (noun) deterioration, decline in quality, declension, worsening
process of changing to an inferior state

3. (noun) descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope
a downward slope or bend

4. (noun) declension
a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
"the first declension in Latin"


Definition of 'declension' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) declension
the act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope

2. (noun) declension
a falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc

3. (noun) declension
act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination

4. (noun) declension
inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases

5. (noun) declension
the form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.

6. (noun) declension
rehearsing a word as declined



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